Whitney Houston’s body has been released by the coroner

TrendPK.com: Whitney Houston’s body has reportedly been released by the coroner’s office as the autopsy has been completed this weekend.

Houston’s autopsy is done, although toxicology results are still pending. However, the body is no longer needed for those tests, states People.

The investigation is still ongoing, but her family can now move forward with her funeral.

The body has reportedly not been picked up yet as arrangements for the funeral are allegedly still being made.

Houston died this past Saturday at the age of 48.

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Govt to tread legal path: Firdous Ashiq

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ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan Monday said the government will tread the legal path vis-à-vis court orders.

She said this while talking to reporters after hearing the landmark contempt case, where Supreme Court (SC) indicted Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani over contempt charge during the proceedings of National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) Implementation case.

She told the PM Gilani will not resign from his office, adding the government will consult its legal experts over the issue.

The judicial verdict is not yet out, she said referring to take on legal fight afar. TrendPK

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PPP leaders rise in sync over PM’s indictment on contempt charge

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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leaders Monday said it is premature to ask Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani to resign.

The PPP leaders, after the Supreme Court (SC) indicted The PM Gilani over contempt charge during the proceedings of National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) Implementation case, said their party respects the courts; however, this should be kept in mind that president has immunity under the Constitution.

Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan reiterated the old stance, “To our reckoning, the President enjoys immunity.”

Responding a question over making the PM Gilani a scapegoat, she said her party has always rendered sacrifices for the public and will keep doing so in future as well.

Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Central Information Secretary Qamar-uz-Zaman Kaira, expressing distress over the indictment of Prime Minister Gilani, asserted that the PM Gilani is not guilty and this will be vindicated at the court as well.

PPP leader and Deputy Speaker in Sindh Assembly Shela Raza said there are thousands of cases pending in courts; but, the PM Gilani’s case is unnecessarily being given so much importance.

Awami National Party (ANP) Chief Asfandyar Wali Khan said his party will remain in coalition government regardless of the verdict.

Meantime, Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, talking to the battery of reporters outside the apex court building, said he had offered a good counsel to the PM Gilani in this regard. TrendPK

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Govt honors judiciary: Spokesman Farhat

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PESHAWAR: Presidential spokesman Farhatullah Babar said the government respects the judiciary.

Talking to media here, he said the President enjoys and will continue to enjoy indemnity. TrendPK

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PM Gilani enjoys support of coalition partners: Shujaat

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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain Monday said Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani stood in the dock before the court for the rule of the law and the Constitution.

Talking to media, he said the PM Gilani enjoys the complete support of the coalition partners. TrendPK

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Opposition parties advise PM Gilani to step aside

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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Ishaq Dar Monday said his party has no role in making Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani ‘an accused’ in National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) Implementation case.

Meantime, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan said no moral justification is left for PM Gilani to stay in his office after he was indicted by the apex court.

It should be mentioned here a seven-member bench headed Justice Nasirul Mulk framed charge against PM Gilani with him (PM Gilani) standing in the docks over failing to implementing the court order over a span of more than two years in National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) Implementation case.

The opposition parties said nobody is above the law and the Constitution even if he is the chief executive of the country.

PML-N leader Dar said his party stands by the judiciary in this regard, adding his party always advised Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) to act upon the court orders precisely.

Analyst and politician Ayaz Ameer said the law gives time to the person accused after framing of the charges against him; no verdict can be delivered summarily.

In contrast, the PPP said it has always honored judiciary and will continue doing so in future as well and no step will be taken up in clash with the law and the Constitution. TrendPK

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Parliament to decide on Pak-US ties: Army Chief Kayani

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ISLAMABAD: Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani Monday said any decision on Pak-US relations will be made by the Parliament.

Speaking at ceremony held at Shahbaz Airbase in Jacobabad, Air Chief Rao Qamar Suleman said Shahbaz Airbase is in complete control of Pakistan’s Air Force.

Kayani said the government policy on US-Pakistan relations is quite clear. TrendPK

NATO admits killing Afghan children in air strike

KABUL: NATO-led forces in Afghanistan said on Monday they had mistakenly killed a group of children in an air strike that has enraged the government, and said their deaths may have been linked to an anti-insurgent operation in the area.

The air strike took place last Wednesday near the village of Giawa, in eastern Kapisa province, and followed similar bombings that have stoked tension between the government and NATO over a civilian death toll that has risen annually for five years.

The children were killed as NATO aircraft and ground forces attacked insurgents on open ground in the Najrab district of Kapisa, said Brigadier General Carsten Jacobson, a spokesman for NATO’s 130,000-strong International Security Assistance Force (ISAF).

“At this point in our assessment we can neither confirm nor deny, with reasonable assurance, a direct link to the engagement. Nonetheless, any death of innocents not associated with armed conflict is a tragedy,” Jacobson told reporters.

Afghan government officials showed gruesome photographs of eight dead boys, and said seven of them had been aged between six and 14, while one had been around 18 years old. They were bombed twice while herding sheep in heavy snow and lighting a fire to keep warm, they said.

“Where were the rights for these children who have been violated? Did they have rights or not? Did they have rights to live as part of the world community?” said Mohammad Tahir Safi, a member of parliament sent by President Hamid Karzai to investigate the air strike.

French soldiers in the area were denied permission to call in air support for an attack north of an area called Ahmad Bik hill, Safi said, citing Afghan security officials in Kapisa, northeast of Kabul.

Despite that, the air strike was launched, Safi said.

Jacobson said the anti-insurgent operation had been carried out according to NATO rules on air strikes, which have been tightened and reviewed under pressure from Karzai and the government.

Karzai’s popularity is damaged by civilian deaths and he has repeatedly urged NATO forces to stop killing villagers.

The Afghan government said the Kapisa attack, and a recent air strike in the eastern province of Kunar that killed seven civilians, had people in both provinces demanding curbs on NATO operations ahead of the planned departure of foreign combat troops by the end of 2014.

CIVILIAN DEATHS RISE AGAIN

The United Nations said this month the number of civilians killed and wounded in the Afghan war had risen for the fifth year in a row, from 2,790 civilian deaths in 2010 to 3,021 in 2011.

Most deaths were caused by insurgents, the United Nations said, but civilian deaths due to NATO air strikes also rose nine percent to 187. Air strikes were the main reason behind civilian deaths caused by NATO.

Separately, two 10-year-old would-be suicide bombers were captured on Sunday in Kandahar province in the south, just months after being pardoned by Karzai, provincial spokesman Zalmai Ayubi said.

The boys, pardoned with 18 others last August, had been carrying suicide bomb vests when they were arrested with three other militants planning an attack on Afghan and NATO forces, Ayubi said.

Officials told Afghanistan’s Tolo TV that the pair had gone to Pakistan after their release, but were sent back to Afghanistan by insurgents taking sanctuary there after being re-trained and told that U.S. troops “will not be able to hit you.”

Afghanistan’s government has been battling to stop the recruitment of child soldiers by the insurgents as the war drags into an eleventh year. Billboards in the capital, Kabul, encourage families to avoid involvement in conflict. AGENCIES

PM contempt case: Altaf urges govt to respect verdict

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LONDON:  Expressing solidarity with Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani, MQM chief Altaf Hussain on Monday urged the government to show patience and honor the ruling.

His remarks came a few hours after Supreme Court charged Prime Minister Gilani with contempt for defying its order to reopen graft cases against President Zardari.

“The government should avoid taking steps that may reflect an emotional reaction,” he said.

“I am sad at the indictment of Prime Minister Gilani,” he said.

Pakistan, he said, cannot afford a standoff and confrontation among state institutions.

brittany murphy cause of death

Brittany Murphy’s husband, Simon Monjack, was identified dead (reportedly from organic leads to, based on Reuters) in the Hollywood Hills house he shared using the “Clueless” star, and where Murphy was found out unconscious in December.

Brittany Murphy cause of death was ruled cardiac arrest brought on by pneumonia, anemia and prescription drug treatments. Monjack, 39, initially blamed the 32-year-old actress’ death on a Hollywood studio that dropped Murphy from the “Happy Feet” sequel.

Though the Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office has already ruled normal brings about in the death, law enforcement sources tell TMZ.com that prescription drug treatments may possibly also have played a part. Monjack was also scheduled for heart bypass surgery in September, based on TMZ.

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